Elevator support



Nov. 27, 1928. 1,693,552

F. HENDERSON ELEVATOR SUPPORT Filed Oct. 15, 1927 Patented Nov. 37,1928. I lfitldfidz rte; srrr. @lF-FlQE.

FRED HENDERSON, OF BISBEE, ABJIZGNA.

ELEVATOR SUPPORT.

Application filed October 15, 1927. Serial No. 228,417.

The present invention relates to improvewith the lower end of the turn buckle for ments in elevator supports, and has reference holding the eye bolt in any predetermined more particularly to an improvement over adjusted position.

Patent No. 1,622,943 of March 29, 1927. A link is carried by the eye portion 11 One of the important. objects of the present formed on the lower end of this eye bolt 8 invention is to provide a means for holding and this link is freely swingable. the cage at a floor level while it is being Ahook member 12 has its inner end portion loaded or unloaded, the means being capasecured to the lower portion of the cage or ble of adjustment, which was one of the dis elevator 1 and t 1e outer free end of this hook 10 advantages of the supporting means disextends beyond the side of the cage. When closed in the aforementioned patentthe cage reaches a fioor level, it is simply A further object is to provide an elevator necessary to swing the interconnected rod and support which is simple in construction, ineX- eye bolt outwardly and place the link 10 in pensive, strong, and durable and further well engagement with the hook 12 in the manner 1 adapted to the purpose for which it is deas clearly shown in the drawing. This will signed. hold the cage at the floor level so that it can Other objects and advantages of the invenbe unloaded or loaded without any danger of tion will become apparent from the followthe elevatormoving. However, when the ing description taken in connection with the cage or elevator starts upward, the hook 12 20 accompanying drawing. will automatically become disengaged from In the accompanying drawing forming the link 10 and the interconnected rod and part of this application and in which like eye bolt will swing out of the path of movenumerals indicate corresponding parts ment of the cage. It will therefore be unthroughout the several views: necessary to manually disengage the hook 25 Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of frOHl t ks 7 an elevator or cage showing the manner in lVhile I have shown the support as being which the same is held at a floor level by my associated on one side of the shaft, it is to be improved support. understood that a similar support may be also Figure 2 is a. View taken at: right angles to employed on the other side of the shaft, and a 30 Flgure 1. complementary hook carried by the adjacent In the drawing wherein for the purpose of SlCle 0f the g illustration is shown the preferred embodi- It has been found in using the elevator supment of my invention, the numeral 1 desigport disclosed in Patent No. 1,622,943 that nates generally the cage or elevator, the same the chain 5 forming a part of the support in being adapted for vertical movement within this patent stretched and did not permit; the shaft 2 in the manner well known in the proper adjustment. It is therefore necesart. 7 sary to employ an elevator support of the Se ur d on one of th ti b 3 f th h ft character embodied in the present invention at a suitable distance above one of the floor in Order t0 Obtain the P p adjustment 50 levels is the metallic strap 4, the same being that the elevator or cage may be held on a formed at its lower end with an eye 5. My level w the fi0 l'- I improved elevator support further includes While I have shown the preferred embodithe provision of an elongat d rod 6 which is ment of my invention, it is to be understood formed at its upper end with an eye for interthat minor changes may be made therein 45 fitting engagement with the eye 5 and the without departing from the spirit of the inlower end of this elongated rod 6 is welded or vention and the scope of the appended claim.

otherwise secured to a turn buckle 7. An Having thus described the invention, what elongated eye bolt 8 has its upper threaded I claim as new is end threaded into the other end of the turn In combination with a cage and its shaft, buckle 7 and a lock nut 9 is arranged on the a metallic strap secured on one of the timbers threaded portion of the bolt for engagement of the shaft, the lower end of the strap being formed with an eye an elongated rod having an eye formed at its upper end for interfitting engagement with the aforementioned eye a turnbuckle secured at its upper end on 5 the lower end of said rod, an eye bolt having its upper end threaded into the lower end of the turnbuckle, a link attached to the eye portion of the eye bolt, and a hook secured on the bottom of the cage at one side thereof and extending outwardly therefrom for detachable engagement With said link.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

FRED HENDERSON. 

